Appeal after six-year-old boy is shot in neck in Dublin

Neighbour: Shot child 'looked so small and scared'

The six-year-old boy who has been shot in the neck in Dublin was understood to have been stood in the hallway of a house when two men approached the front door, according to the Irish Independent newspaper.

The men are said to have knocked before firing into the hallway and the boy was reported to have been hit in the neck, either directly or by a ricochet.